Do not send aney horses by ship as I will bring them overland affter shearing as I will come to Auckland if you don't come hear. You will have Ferguson by this time in Auckland. He is a good old fellow and kind but he boast and blarneys to much and the dearest man in the whole place you have little to do with him. He and I are good friends but he has been chargeing me nearly doubble the price other peopple would. He was chargeing me 8/ per pound for sugar when I could get good sugar at the port delivered at Waipiriki for 6 pence per pound and all other things acordingley he charged £5 pounds for the service of the horse to one mare and had the use of her for three or four month rideing her. The hundred pounds you paid him £50 was for 54 sheep, the rest for timber. I got sugar at the port for 6d and let him keep his black sheep